She said: “Labour’s position is that it won’t back a second EU referendum unless it has tried and failed to trigger a general election. But if it won’t try to trigger a general election we are in this catch-22 position and it seems to me that Labour is as much a barrier to making progress on Brexit as the Tories are.”

Ms Sturgeon said she would continue talking to other opposition parties.

A Labour Party spokesman told the BBC: “Labour will bring a vote of no confidence when it has the best chance of succeeding.

“We are looking at this on a day-by-day, week-by-week basis.”

Nicola Sturgeon’s call comes just a day after one of Jeremy Corbyn’s own MPs called on the Labour leader to “come off the fence” and back another vote on EU membership.

‘Break the impasse’

Ian Murray, the MP for Edinburgh South, said he believed a call for a second referendum – or People’s Vote – could command a majority in the House of Commons if supported by the Labour frontbench.

Mr Murray told the BBC: “The Labour Party will have to come off the fence on that at some point pretty soon because I think what they’re trying to do might be incompatible with what’s available.

“There’s a majority of MPs that would stop a no-deal scenario from happening so that could be taken off the table.

“I think we can get a majority around a People’s Vote because we need to try and break the impasse between now and the 29th of March.”

Mr Murray said cross-party talks in parliament were ongoing to try and push for another EU vote.

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